First known on its establishment in 1884 as The Cambridge Infectious Diseases Hospital then the Cambridge Borough Isolation Hospital.
Sometimes known as ‘The Sanatorium’ it specialized in infectious disease such as scarlet fever, smallpox, typhoid and diphtheria
In 1947, it was absorbed under the umbrella of the United Cambridge Hospitals, (UCH), and became known as Brookfields. It continued as a hospital for infectious diseases until Addenbrooke’s Hospital's Hills Road site was completed in the early 1960s.
Records: Cambridgeshire Archives holds minutes of the Cambridge Borough Sanatorium Committee, later Public Health Committee, 1889-1949 including monthly reports detailing name and address of discharged patients, date of admission etc.
